This juvenile YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON was photographed by Filipe Correira on Terceira, in the AZORES. It has been present since at least 28 July 2010 and was still being seen as recently as last Sunday 23 January 2011. Full marks to Tony Clarke for notifying me of this amazing record
Saturday 29 January 2011
Tuesday 18 January 2011
BRUCE'S GREEN PIGEON in EGYPT
Tuesday 11 January 2011
AFRICAN MOURNING DOVES in extreme southern EGYPT - first record for the WP
On 29th December 2010 I and Dirk Colin were looking for birds in the Village of Abu Simbel (near the Tempel) in southern EGYPT. On one occasion I was attracted to a strange call somewhere in a tree. I shouted to Dirk to come and listen to this call. Suddenly the bird left the tree and we could see that it was in fact a small Collared Dove type perhaps African. We found also a second Dove.
From that moment on they were seen displaying and were regularly calling - with this krawrr call http://www.xeno-canto.org/XCspeciesprofiles.php?species_nr2=5736.00
When we got back home and checked the photographs, we realised that our birds were actually AFRICAN MOURNING DOVES Streptopelia decipiens, ""a first for the Western Palearctic."" !!
Kris De Rouck, Belgium
From that moment on they were seen displaying and were regularly calling - with this krawrr call http://www.xeno-canto.org/XCspeciesprofiles.php?species_nr2=5736.00
When we got back home and checked the photographs, we realised that our birds were actually AFRICAN MOURNING DOVES Streptopelia decipiens, ""a first for the Western Palearctic."" !!
Kris De Rouck, Belgium
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